tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post1082187617567704601..comments2024-03-26T12:44:30.308-07:00Comments on Blue Heron Blast: Fallen IdolsBlue Heronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-42209429992769245032015-03-11T20:39:43.604-07:002015-03-11T20:39:43.604-07:00Very good and insightful comment, Jon. I had dinne...Very good and insightful comment, Jon. I had dinner with four twenty something computer nerd millionaires, not one of them owned a painting or any artwork, not part of the new paradigm. New centuries have always been accompanied by big design shifts, hence the fall of victorian and eastlake and many other genres. But never have we said, oh let's collect total mass produced sheit.Blue Heronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13516946085702606491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8786764158320829279.post-78372388756918900242015-03-11T20:13:35.982-07:002015-03-11T20:13:35.982-07:00The sense I have is that we are accelerating into ...The sense I have is that we are accelerating into a world of technology that may well result ultimately in a world in which a small elite is the only folk that will be needed. The rest-- who knows. However at present the "kids" although clueless about the final destination, are much more sensitive to the accelerating technology than are us "elders". They sense that history and the art of yesterday are irrelevant. Only the new and dynamically changing are significant. That may screw up sales of anything old before long at least among the "commoners". Among the tiny technical and economic elite, who knows. Our history may survive as a sort of rarely visited educational/amusement park, or perhaps not at all outside of computer memory.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com